Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 1770 (1931)

St. John's Reformed / St. John's UCC: Sanctuary
315 Gay Street
Phoenixville, PA

Images

Unknown - Grill/Facade, 2010. (Photograph by Alex Smith/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console, 2010. (Photograph by Alex Smith/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
13 stops
8 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-12-21 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 20, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2011-08-03 - Updated through online information from Alex Smith. -Database Manager

2013-07-02 - Updated through online information from Alex Smith. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console July 24, 2009 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
St. John's United Church of Christ (formerly St. John's Reformed Church) 

Austin Organ Company, Hartford Connecticut      Opus 1770       Built 1931       II/8       543 pipes

Great Division:
8' Open Diapason - 73 pipes
8' Stopped Flute (wood) - 73 pipes
8' Salicional - 73 pipes
8' Dulciana - 73 pipes
4' Harmonic Flute (metal) - 73 pipes
Great to Great 16'
Great to Great 4'
Swell to Great 16'
Swell to Great 8'
Swell to Great 4'
Chimes - 25 notes 

Swell Division:
8' Stopped Diapason (From Great) - 73 notes
8' Salicional (From Great) - 73 notes
8' Voix Celeste (TC ext. to 4') - 61 pipes 
8' Dulciana (From Great) - 73 notes
4' Harmonic Flute (From Great) -73 notes
8' Oboe Horn - 73 pipes 
Tremolo (Austin Fan Tremulant) 
Swell to Swell 16' 
Swell to Swell 4' 

Pedal Division:
16' Bourdon - 32 pipes 
16' Lieblich Gedackt (ext. 8' Stopped Flute) - 12 pipes 
Swell to Pedal 8'
Swell to Pedal 4'
Great to Pedal 8' 

Unisons:
Swell Unison Off
Great Unison Off  

One Level of Memory 
6 General Pistons 
6 Great Divisional Pistons (sets Great and Pedal stops)
6 Swell Divisional Pistons (sets Swell and Pedal stops) 
3 Pedal Divisional Toe Studs 

Great to Pedal Reversible Toe Stud
Full Organ Toe Stud 
Chime Volume Adjustor 
Swell Box/Crescendo Ribbon Indicators 

Entire organ under expression except for Pedal 16' Bourdon. 
Tuning: A=435
Organ maintained by Bill DeGothsier Pipe Organs. 

 [Received from Alex Smith 2011-08-03.]